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A Biography of William Butler Yeats the Great Irish Poet (1908 words, 3 pages)

William Butler Yeats has often been described as the greatest poet in the history of Ireland and probably the greatest poet to write in Great Britain during the 20th Century. His themes, symbols, images, metaphors and ability to evoke an emotional response were all directly influenced by his tremendous personal ... Read More

The Theme of Respect for Father in Seamus Heaney’s Poems Digging and Follower (1119 words, 3 pages)

The poems Digging and Follower by Seamus Heaney both are powerful expressions of the poet's admiration and respect for his father. Heaney strongly stresses his relationship with his father by creating a forceful comparison between himself and his dad and by doing so raises another important issue that is present ... Read More

A Comparison Between the Works of William Wordsworth and Samuel Coleridge (737 words, 1 pages)

Wordsworth and Coleridge Poems in the Romantic Period can be referred to as incidents of life. They involve every aspect of life such as love, guilt, sinning, and even death. Specifically William Wordsworth and Samuel Coleridge have written many poems that have dealt with great emotions and imagination but they ... Read More

A Literary Analysis of The World Is Too Much With Us by William Wordsworth (323 words, 1 pages)

Words are Worth Much I decided to write on the poem "The World is Too Much with us" by William Wordsworth because I enjoyed this poem. The poem is an Italian sonnet (a sonnet is a "little song" consisting of fourteen lines), which is a poem that has two parts ... Read More

An Introduction to the Life of W. Carlos Williams (716 words, 2 pages)

Throughout my years in high school I was interested in poetry. I liked reading it and even wrote sometimes just for pleasure and fun. When I was in 11th grade my English teacher told me " the poet is the person possessing the word of the creative imagination". He also ... Read More

An Analysis of the Poem Strange Fruit by Allan Lewis (983 words, 2 pages)

Why Do People Write or Read Poetry? What a boring subject, Poetry! I could never understand why anyone would like to write or read poetry. The idea of a person that has nothing to do but ponder on lifes experiences of happiness, life, death or sorrow and put in to ... Read More

An Introduction to the History of China (629 words, 1 pages)

China is occupied by a quarter of all the people in the world. It has the longest continuous culture surviving from ancient times. As a state China is bringing more and more enormous influence in the politics and economics of the twenty-first century. Now there are a lot of interactions ... Read More

Understanding the Message of the Poem, Two Scavengers in a Truck (584 words, 1 pages)

What is the message of 'two scavengers in a truck'? Explain the techniques used by the poet to put the message across. The message of 'two scavengers' is a simple one. It shows us that no matter where we come from, no matter how rich or poor we are there ... Read More

An Introduction to the History of Sparta (1353 words, 2 pages)

The Beginning of Sparta In about 100 BCE, the Dorians invaded Greece from the North. During the Dark Ages, the Dorians made their way south, capturing the inhabitants of the lands they passed through as helots. At the beginning of the Dark Ages, it is thought that there were many ... Read More

An Analysis of the Poem, Lycidas by John Milton (501 words, 1 pages)

Elizabeth Stevens Milton Professor Baumel 21 September 2004 More often than necessary, the speaker makes several comments about how water plays an important role in sadness and death. Typically, water can be compared to tears of sadness andor joy. The speaker uses this comparison and contrast to explain both the ... Read More

The Life and Literary Works of Walter Mosley (376 words, 1 pages)

Walter Mosley was born in Los Angeles in 1952. He currently lives in New York City. He has been at various times in his life a potter, a computer programmer, a poet, and a short story writer he studied writing in the graduate program of City College of New York. ... Read More

The Meaning of Poetry According to Walt Whitman (1282 words, 3 pages)

Every poem is an answer to the question what is poetry for? Write about how any one poet has confronted this question in his or her work. Every poem is the poets attempt to answer the question what is poetry for, and no less the work of Walt Whitman, perhaps ... Read More

The Life and Works of Walt Whitman (849 words, 2 pages)

Walt Whitman (1819-1892), American poet, whose work boldly asserts the worth of the individual and the oneness of all humanity. Whitmans defiant break with traditional poetic concerns and style exerted a major influence on American thought and literature. Born near Huntington, New York, Whitman was the second of a family ... Read More

An Analysis of Syntax the Works of Ann E. Imbrie and Barbara Mellix (1748 words, 2 pages)

Syntax is an arrangement of words that placed in the proper format, conveys a message to the world. It is very easy to type out a sentence, or write a paper based on the tools you are given from your teacher or professor, but to create your own style and ... Read More

A Comparison of Similar Themes in the Lamb and the Tiger by William Blake (891 words, 2 pages)

Tiger and Lamb We often see many authors that write different poems with similar themes. Believing in something very strongly and passionately, these authors tend reflect this nature in their work. They reflect personal experience, either theirs or others. In the poems The Lamb and The Tiger, by William Blake, ... Read More

A Biography of Thomas Howard the Fourth Duke of Norfolk (1985 words, 3 pages)

In the year of our Lord, 1538, Frances Howard, Countess of Surrey, gave birth to her second child. Within the walls of Kenninghall Palace, Thomas Howard was born at precisely thirty-six minutes and seven seconds past two oclock in the morning on October 10th, 1538. In attendance at this occasion ... Read More

A Biography of Karl Marx (2191 words, 3 pages)

Karl Heinrich Marx was born on May 5, 1818, in the city of Trier in Prussia, now, Germany. He was the second of eight children of Jewish Parents. His father was fairly liberal, taking part in demonstrations for a constitution for Prussia and reading such authors as Voltaire and Kant, ... Read More

The Representation of Women in the Poems, The Minotaur by Ted Hughes and The Rival by Sylvia Plath (995 words, 2 pages)

Poetry often allows its audience to gain meaningful messages which have been deliberately left behind by their creators. Two poems which deal with the representations of women are Ted Hughes "The Minotaur" and Sylvia Plath's "The Rival". The major difference between the themes of these two poems is that while ... Read More

The Struggles of a Village in the Novel, Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe (1354 words, 2 pages)

In Things Fall Apart, the author Chinua Achebe shows the struggles of a village strong man, Okonkwo to achieve eternal greatness and keep the traditions of his village, Umuofia, alive. Okonkwo is portrayed as a person who strongly believes in the importance of showing one's strength and masculinity, and brands ... Read More

A Discussion of the Life of the Troubadours, Trobaritz, and Trouvers (1446 words, 3 pages)

What were the troubadours, trobaritz, and trouvers and what were their lives like? This paper will offer a brief overview on the troubadours, trobaritz, and trouvers as well as give an introduction to each one, and explain the difference between them. Lastly, it will describe how they lived during the ... Read More

A Look into the Life and Works of Edgar Allan Poe (1763 words, 3 pages)

Edgar Allan Poe is one of the leading figures of American literature. He is known as a poet and a critic, but is most famous as the first master of the short story form, especially tales of the mysterious and gruesome. In Poes poems, like his tales, his characters are ... Read More

The Story of John McCrae in the Famous Poem “In Flanders Field” (2454 words, 4 pages)

The Story of John McCrae John McCrae is the author of the famous poem, In Flanders Field, written during the First World War. John was born in 1872 and raised in Guelph, Ontario and is remembered as one of Guelph's most famous citizens.McCrae was more than a poet, and was ... Read More

An Analysis of Emily Dickinson’s Poems (974 words, 2 pages)

Throughout the history of human kind, there have existed a significant number of poets, who did not care to write about happy things. Rather, they concerned themselves with unpleasant and sinister concepts, such as death. Fascination and personification of death has become a common theme in poetry, but very few ... Read More

John Keats and the Struggle with the Idea of Immortality (532 words, 1 pages)

The methods of reflection are often invoked during or after an extended illness. For this reason poet, John Keats, struggled with the idea of immortality and its indistinct inimitability in an attempt to come to an understanding or conquer the fears of his unavoidable and untimely death. In Keats Ode ... Read More

War and the Pity of War in Dulce Et Decorum Est by Wilfred Owen (7755 words, 10 pages)

My subject is war and the pity of war. The poetry is in the pity, said Wilfred Owen. With close reference to three war poems that you have studied, show how they communicate the pity of war. Wilfred Owen, a man who is now considered to be one of the ... Read More

The Issue of the Individual as an Existence in the Poems “An Old Man” and “The Souls of Old Man” by Constantine Cavafy (1473 words, 3 pages)

In this essay I will try to explore the way in which the Greek poet Constantine Cavafy addresses the issue of the individual as an existence and especially the way the poet depicts the old age. To this purpose I will refer to two of the plethora of his poems, ... Read More

An Essay on the Mona Lisa (328 words, 1 pages)

The Mystic Smile This article was about the Mona Lisa. The Mona Lisa is a portrait of a real flesh-and-blood woman named Lisa Gheradini, the wife of a wealthy Florentine merchant named Francesco del Giocondo. The Mona Lisa was painted in oil, on wood between the years of 1503 and ... Read More

An Analysis of Wuthering Heights, a 1847 Gothic Novel by Emily Bronte (6881 words, 8 pages)

once upon a time, it seems, an English clergyman born Brunty or Branty, self-baptized the more romantic Bronte, brought home to his four children a box of twelve wooden soldiers. The children lived in isolation in a parsonage high on the Yorkshire moors, which is to say, at the edge ... Read More

The Life and Literary Works of Robert Browning (1867 words, 4 pages)

Robert Browning English poet, noted for his mastery of dramatic monologue. Robert Browning was long unsuccessful as a poet and financially dependent upon his family until he was well into adulthood. In his best works people from the past reveal their thoughts and lives as if speaking or thinking aloud. ... Read More

The Corruption of Capitalism in The Jungle by Upton Sinclair, Jr. (313 words, 1 pages)

American history has always been dominated by those individuals who have challenged themselves with causes. Sinclair used The Jungle as a way to make America aware of the corruption of Chicagos meat packing industry and the general corruption of capitalism. He did this by telling the story of a group ... Read More

Published: Friday 25th of January 2013